Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-07 | Page 27 | Table Telephones Stimulate Whoopee Making in Paris Cafes

Table Telephones Stimulate Whoopee Making in Paris Paril Cafes France Fr e. e F Fist Fast t Acquiring Man Many American Tastes Taste No Longer Cheap Place for Tourist PARIS July July- 6 NEA The NEA-The The whoopee industry of ot Paris farls soon willbe willbe will Wm be working to capacity capacity- and the combination of Cf just enough American Ameri Ameri- American can luxury with just enough Parisian Pari Par Pari sian novelty is i's gladdening the hearts and reducing th the purses of ot tourists In fanned famed l Montmartre l I the lights begin to flare lare up shortly before midnight as of ot old and outshine tho sun for merrymakers until after breakfast Jo Joe Jop with his ex expansive ox- ox smile at tho the Royal B Box x still holds lordly sway over The Hill HIlI Hilland Hilland and still entertains more Americans than ever ever- descended from the the- orIginal original nal nai passengers of or the Mayflower da But there's theres new machinery In in Joes Joe's joy factory this year that puts puts- it a a jump ahead of ot anything his guests mayo have seen back home Telephones have been installed at each of or the tables so 50 that diners ma nay may converse with ith each cach olier other across the room room- The big dollars dollars- cents and and man from Indiana who never would woul dare walk over and ask tho pretty blond for tor a dance now now can converse over a 1 telephone with It is a 0 geat great institution for tOt facilitating friendships REAL AM AMERICAN LIFE The tourist doesn't miss many of ot the com comforts torts of home lie Ie Is eating good old an eggs an e s-s s beIng being be- be be be- ing big entertained by American theatrical theatrical the the- folk being ell guided s by po policemen po- po who speak his own language and and cv everywhere about seeing American faces and and and- recognizing American practices This mis season seMon promises to eclipse all al records for tourist business bIness here Government prop propaganda g steamship lines lines' publicity and the activity of ot tourIst L a agencies have been big factors but aside aide from nil all that Paris has determined tobe tobo to to- tobo bo be cordial to her Visitors Theatres play ply to W t the Am American section of ot their th tr lIes Res- serve e American dishes In all U of ot the bi big stores stores' and many small ones speaking English speaking in interpreters interpreters In- In are areat at hand It If has ha been the tho practice for such stores hero to place a a. sign in ln the window reading read- read ing big English Spoken but bM today one of ot the biggest stores on tho the Boulevard ard des ha has signs reading Wo We all an speak English These stores crry carry camry American Americ goods gods American foodstuffs and appeal to American tastes tates So great has been the change that M M. Pierre writing wrinG in La asks Is France Franco acquiring Am American rc n tastes Jle He le thinks so so and he says HaYS it t Is 15 Irresistible He mentions the growing popularity of or American cocktails American breakfast foods fods American plays and mo l movies s. s and even cen women's American stockings He Ho thinks the change is IB taking place unconsciously ilc WERE WE'RE ATTRACTIVE There are arc few pe persons ons in Fa France ce who deliberately attend the American Amen Ameri can school l or who consider the American life Uto and atmosphere su superior su- su ho he wrote But But we feel In spite of ourselves ourselves' tho thio ho Ir irresistible ble We attraction of or th the richest and and- most powerful nation naton of ot the modern world Too well all aware of ot the saps gaps and the flaws in n th the American AmerIc civilization tion ton tion we avoid admiring it S but quite quit quie unawares we ie acquire tastes tates an and habits s that we think ar are only th the latest thing thinS but which sic are ae as s S a matter of or fact essentially American Albeit we do not wish to AmericanIze American American- Ize ourselves we arc are inevitably on the tho wa way o 10 modernizing ourselves In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Amerl American n manner This modernizing of of t Paris Is I what wha makes lakes American visitors feel teel morat more mor at home this Oils year er than ever be be- fore tore Old world philosophy an and background are mixing happily with wih n new w world worM progress The Tile great geat gal gal- gaJ and museums museums here have hav have guides who are required d to 10 speak English So are ae the American bars barsin bas in several of ot which French Fench Is c con cOn cOn- n- n sider cd almost a tongue Visitors drop In lri the Ritz or Harry's Harrys Harrys Harry's Har Har- rys ry's New York bar or orO Johnnys Johnny's In Inthe Inthe inthe the Rue Ruo du Port Por Mahon ahon and revel re reve In that familiar atmosphere of ot th the good old pre pre- pre days das And the thc cocktails are just as good a athey as Ule they ever eye were back home Women Womengo go shopping with the same sae as sell sel-as- sel io as they would In th the states PARIS ISN'T CH CHEAP EAP NOW The repeated oft oC accusation that tha stores hero here have different prices fo for foreigners than for tor natives is without with with- out foundation No respectable house could afford to have a 0 two a-two- two two two- price scale scle What many visItors visitor forget torget is that prices pries in Paris ar arno are areno ac acno no longer cheap as they were a afew afew few icv years cars ago because of ot the low French exchange Today the they ar aron are re reon on n a par pi with those ot of New York and In lu some departments notably notably- mens men's goods they are higher than thanIn In the average American ct city Merchants agree agree that that price disputes disputes disputes dis dis- dis- dis arise chiefly out of ot the visitors visitor's tors tor's lack Jack of familiarity with th the thc French curren currency An American str stranger nger will cosh ca ch bl lila his greenbacks greenback for a handful of this his tun funny money money H It seems a lot to hin until unU he starts buying expensively and then he Ie e finds that it has a came funn funny way a of or gon as easily as i it I